Recap - A moral question for theists

[Drich]

"Soon" is a relative term.

I just put my car in a shop to be repainted. They said this should take too long, in essence I should have it back 'soon.' Which means 2 to 3 weeks.

Now to a 24 hour fruit fly 3 weeks is a couple dozen generations.

That said just because the body shop owner's idea of soon does not match the 24 hour fruit fly's idea of soon does it mean that the body shop guy is lying?

You dry sand are the fruit fly.

Or 2 Peter 3:8 for the same  idea in Holy Scripture.

When you quote scripture here it tends to shut the atheist down from 'thinking' and has them just parrot chiche'd arguments they know go with certain scripture. oh, look Cross gave a great example of this. That's why I try the Mr. Magi approach. I get them to wax on right hand wax off left hand/fruit fly, which tends to distract them long enough to learn a biblical precept like your passage in 2 peter, despite their best efforts to keep their minds walled off.